There were occasionally websites that were outstandingly good. There were frequently sites that were good enough to be passable but needed some improvement - but those sites were usually not DIY sites.

It was rare that a DIY site did not have at least one category in which it ranked poor on a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair and Poor.

Unfortunately, if you do not know something about web design it is easy to end up with an alleged website designer or developer who uses outdated code (such as tables layout) or uses frames or produces coding errors in tidy.

There are also too many alleged designers who are using tools for people who do not know the first thing about HTML or CSS or XML.

At the time that I checked the site recommended by Carlos, there were several coding errors on its home page. These included several misplaced tags, a missing alt attribute and the use of a tag which is not approved by the W3C.org consortium.

It also promotes itself as being a tool for starting a web design business when you don’t know how. Many web designers use tools other than text editors, but your designer should know how to REWRITE the code in a text editor because even the best tools occasionally make mistakes in coding.

For websites, I’m not so sure if going it alone is a bad idea. With careful design research and a basic sense of what you want to accomplish it is possible for a computer literate person to create a simple and effective website. Using open-source software like Gimp (for Graphics) and possible open-source E-commerce packages like ZenCart & OScommerce make it even less expensive and easy. If you really don’t want to do it yourself, it might be worthwhile to try bartering with other business owners to see if anyone would like to use your service in exchange for website help.

About point #1: for most novice IBOs, I’ve found that nothing beats the comprehensive features of Site Build It!.

I say this because most individual entrepreneurs would be ill-advised to welcome the inherent challenges of outsourcing the creation of that first web site. Dealing with an external web creator (lag-time, creative differences) and the complexities of traffic generation (SEO) can actually prove counter-productive for the individual entrepreneur.

SiteBuildIt! is an advanced, comprehensive solution for this problem in that it handles all the technical facets of creating and maintaining a SE-friendly web site while simultaneously guiding the IBO through the process of what should be their number one focus on the web: creating quality site content.

Forgive me if I sound like and “Ad” here; it’s just that I’m convinced this is the preferred option for those who don’t already have a steady, growing stream of incoming customer contact.

Just my 1.2 cents (adjusted downward for inflation). (c: